tripudium

tripudium (plural tripudia)

1. (historical) A solemn religious dance of the Ancient Romans, performed in triple time.
2. A form of divination based on the observation of birds feeding.

From Latin ter + pes. See the old form tripodātiō, but compare with the possibly related Latin paveō, paviō, pudeō, repudium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /triˈpu.di.um/, [trɪˈpʊ.di.ũ]

tripudium n (genitive tripudiī or tripudī); second declension

1. a measured stamping, a leaping, jumping, dancing in religious solemnities; a solemn religious dance
2. a dance
3. a favorable omen (when the chickens ate so greedily that the food dropped from their mouths to the ground)

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• ?Italian: tripudio

• sonīvius

• tripudium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tripudium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tripudium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tripudium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• tripudium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tripudium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin